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April 24, 7:00 PM
Hannah Lillith Assadi
The Sawyer Room at The Chalfonte Hotel
Hannah Lillith Assadi is the author of the Women's Prize long-listed novel Paradiso 17 (Knopf 2026), inspired by the life of her late Palestinian father. Her debut novel Sonora (Soho 2017) received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Prize. Her second novel The Stars Are Not Yet Bells (Riverhead 2022) was named a New Yorker and NPR best book of 2022. She is also the co-editor of an anthology of the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, which will be published by Everyman’s Library/ Knopf in November 2026. She teaches fiction at the Columbia University School of the Arts and the Pratt Institute. In 2018, she was named a '5 under 35' honoree by the National Book Foundation.
May 29, 7:00 PM
Sarah Wang
Jawbone Gallery
*Admission to this event is free, but tickets are recommended to reserve your spot.
Sarah Wang is the author of New Skin (Little, Brown 2026). She has written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, the London Review of Books, The Nation, The New Republic, Harper’s Bazaar, n+1, McSweeney’s, and BOMB, among other publications. Wang is a NYSCA/NYFA Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, a Center for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellow, the winner of a Barbara Deming Award, and a finalist for the Nelson Algren Prize. She teaches writing at Barnard College and lives in New York City.
June 15, 6:00 PM
Anelise Chen
Cape May Point Arts & Science Center
Anelise Chen is the author of the novel So Many Olympic Exertions, a finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. She is a 5 Under 35 Honoree from the National Book Foundation. Her recent book, Clam Down, is a hybrid memoir about the pleasures and perils of a closed-up life. Chen is currently an associate professor of creative writing at Columbia University. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with her family.
June 17, 6:00 PM
Jonathan Dee
Cape May Point Arts & Science Center
Jonathan Dee is the author of eight novels, includingSugar Street, The Locals, and The Privileges, which was a runner-up for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize and winner of the 2011 Prix Fitzgerald and the St. Francis College Literary Prize. He is a National Magazine Award-nominated literary critic for Harper’s and The New Yorker, a former Contributing Writer for The New York Times Magazine, a former senior editor of The Paris Review, and the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Syracuse University.
June 19, 7:30 PM
Dana Spiotta
Jawbone Gallery
Dana Spiotta is the author of five novels, most recently Wayward (Knopf). She has been shortlisted for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize, the St. Francis College Literary Prize, a Creative Capital Award, and the John Updike Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She teaches in the Syracuse University Creative Writing Program.
November 14, 6:00 PM (time tentative)
Owen Long
Clemans Theater, Allen AME Church
Owen Long is a journalist and former Christmas tree salesman. He writes for New York Magazine and Epic Magazine, covering subcultures, crime, and politics. His work has been adapted into a documentary and a forthcoming scripted film produced by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. He lives in Brooklyn.
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